Paul Feig is speaking out after a devastating murder.
The 60-year-old Bridesmaids and The Office director issued a statement following the death of shop owner and mother of nine Laura Ann Carleton, who was shot and killed by a man who confronted her for displaying a Pride flag.
“Our wonderful friend Lauri Carlton (seen in this picture) was murdered yesterday in her store @magpi_shop in Lake Arrowhead by a 27 year old man who didn’t like that she had a large pride flag hanging outside of her shop,” he wrote.
“He ripped it down and when she confronted him about it he shot and killed her.”
Paul Feig directed the 2018 dark comedy starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, and he just spoke out in a conversation with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle and co-host Julia Cunningham.
During their chat, he gave a status update on the highly anticipated sequel to the movie.
The new movie centers on best friends Sophie and Agatha, who find themselves on opposing sides of a modern fairy tale when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where young heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance of good and evil.
The flick is now streaming on Netflix, and the events that happen in the movie make it definitely seem likely!
Anna Kendrick is pretty in pink next to William Jackson Harper at the season two premiere of Love Life held at DGA Theater on Sunday night (October 24) in New York City.
For season two, the focus will be on William‘s Marcus Watkins, who is entering his 30s freshly divorced, and lost as ever. Forced to rediscover his identity as a single Black man in New York, Marcus must learn to find love again.
Anna‘s Darby character from the first season will appear briefly in the first episode, and give fans closure as to how her story ended before she hands the focus over to the next person in the new season.
Love Life‘s season two will begin streaming on October 28. Check out the trailer for the HBO Max show below!
FYI: Anna wore a Lanvin dress with Alexandre Birman shoes. William wore a Paul Smith suit.
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Speaking to Julia Cunningham on The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM, the director remembers the negativity that surrounded the film.
“Some really brilliant author or researcher or sociologist needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined [our film was] with Hillary [Clinton] and the anti-Hillary movement,” Paul shared. “It was just this year where everyone went to a boiling point. I don’t know if it was [having] an African-American president for eight years [that] teed them up or something, but they were just ready to explode…By the time, in 2014 or 2015, when I announced I was going to [make] it, it started.”
He added that “it’s crazy how people got nuts about women trying to be in power or trying to be in positions that they weren’t normally in. It was an ugly, ugly year.”
Ghostbusters, which also starred Chris Hemsworth as the dim-witted receptionist for the team, lost about $50 million at the box office.
